She-ra: Heirs of Etheria

Chapter 4 Through the vents

"CLONE!" Screamed Cupid, spitting glitters that were on his cape.
"What!? Where!?" Asked Finn.
Cupid pointed at Hordette, who was sneaking away with Emily.
They have never met her, that's why they belived it was just a clone of Horde Prime and a robot.
The two teens ran towards them. They wanted to stop Hordette from anything she was doing.
Too bad for them, Hordette and Emily slipped inside the vents before they could reach them.
"I knew it! I knew something would have gone wrong!" said Cupid "We have to alert our parents!".
Finn stopped him from alerting anyone.
"It's just one clone and a robot, we can win this fight so easly by ourself!" Finn seemed so sure. Cupid wasn't.
He grabbed his bracelet to give himself more confidence.
Cupid agreed to follow Finn's plan to capture the clone and the robot by themself.
They entered in the vents.
So while Hordette and Emily were following the signal, Finn and Cupid were following them from the distance.
Soon Hordette recived a strong signal from below. It was time to get out of the vents and change direction.
But when she was about to do it, Finn and Cupid reached her.
"Hey, clone! Stop were you are!" Yelled Finn.
Hordette heard a metallic sound as they were getting closer.
"Don't come any closer!" Said Hordette to them, but they didn't listened.
The old vent couldn't bear all that weight, and it broke.
They all fell in a dark place, where they could barely see each other.
Finn was able to land without trouble and then they catched Cupid, only to be both flatted by Hordette and Emily.
Finn and Hordette got up in the same moment and were face to face.
"Clone! Don't you dare make a move!" said Finn, assuming an attack position.
Hordette, by taking a close look to them, said:
"Why am I feeling like I've already seen your face somewhere?" Hordette squished their face with her hair "Did you ever end up in a fight with my father?".
"Your father?" Wondered Finn after moving away the hair.
They weren't sure of who was in front of them.
Finn could only see Hordette's glowing eyes in the dark and the crystal on her belt.
They went closer to her and by doing that, they accidentally stepped on a trap.
The four of them have fallen into an old training camp of the Horde's cadets.
"Oh no" murmured Finn when the trap light up.
They heard the sound of slow, heavy, footsteps approaching.
From the shadows, some training robots emerged, damaged, but still running.
The robots surrounded them.
Finn got back in their attack position.
They started to fight against those robots.
"Cupid, I could really use your arrows now!".
Cupid was on the ground, with Emily on his back.
"Ugh! I. Can't. Get. Up!" grumbled the boy.
Finn wasn't in a better position. Fighting the robots alone was hard enough, but they were also keeping an eye on Hordette, who wasn't doing anything except for watching them.
Eventually, Finn was defeated when one the robots hit them from behind.
They collapsed on the ground, next to Cupid.
"Finn!" Screamed the boy, trying to reach his friend.
The robots were getting closer.
Only then, Hordette stood between the two teens and the Horde robots.
She stretched out her right arm and a sort of cannon came out from it.
Hordette fired at the robots. One for one, they fell down.
Cupid couldn't belive his eyes.
Finn wake up and saw Hordette blow up the last one, and it was the most epic thing that they have ever seen.
Hordette pulled the cannon back into her arm, and she got her normal right hand again.
When it was all over, Finn got up to help Cupid.
"Ugh! Move from her!" Finn was pushing Emily away to try free their friend.
Emily moved from Cupid's back and went to Hordette.
The girl was caressing one of the robots that she just took down.
"Poor thing. If only I had the chance to help you and your friends before".
Hordette didn't want to destroy those robots. She only did it to save the two unknown teens.
It wasn't fault of the robots if they were created to attact the others. It wasn't their decision to be made that way.